Dr. Scott Haig, who writes for Time (of all liberal rags) doesn’t like his patients using Google to find out about their condition. How awful can it be to have an informed patient?
I’d had this post bouncing around in my skull for a couple days now, time to get it down on paper.
You all know I’m a diabetic if you’ve been around here for any length of time. Some of you may also be aware of the fact I’m hypothyroid due to RAI for Graves [...]
January 2006 is Thyroid Awareness Month.
I have a condition called “Hypothyroidism” but mine is due to the treatment I received for “Graves Disease“. I started out being treated with synthetic T4, which is simply put, taking one thyroid hormone to replace a gland that produced 4 different types. After loosing a [...]
Mary Shomon’s latest newsletter has her article about the TSH Reference Range Wars.
TSH is the thyroid stimulating hormone that is measured by your doctor to determine if you are having problems or not. For years the range of TSH was .5 to 5.0. Anything below that you were considered Hyperthyroid anything above [...]
Unstable Thyroid Can Cause Major Problems
BALTIMORE — People who have an overactive or underactive thyroid can have significant problems.
Yup — been there, done that … for how many years I don’t know actually.
Classic symptoms of Graves’ disease include unexplained weight loss, fatigue, a racing heart or heart palpitations, feeling short of breath, skin [...]
Continue reading about Graves’ Disease Often Goes Undiagnosed
I was looking through Yahoo! Health News earlier today and came upon an article by Suzanne Leigh from USAToday.com titled Prescription: for doctors: E-Mail. (Note: I tried to find the story on USAToday.com, but couldn’t, so the quotes come from the re-posting done by Yahoo! here.)
She starts out talking about needing to speak to [...]
